Ennui Elucidator

I largely agree, but I’m not sure how to take your post in relation to my initial one. In life, accounting, or law, truth is constructed and is, to th...

Just a heads up, I am mindful of the sheer information and computational density of transistor based bi-valent logic implemented on the scale of 5nm o...

Fixed it. But then again, the "s" is natural and the "the" less so. :p

I am not going to disagree with you (as there are all sorts of senses in which you are right), but on a low level, I'm not sure why asking for a metho...

In that, no-essence, the thing is in the doing kind of way? Just a question of whether what we are doing is customarily called "philosophy"?

The important part is the narrative arc, not the parsing of Heidegger. The end of philosophy (problems dissolved when language is given its proper pla...

Fair enough. As more food for thought, consider this bit about Heidegger in the IEP's discussion of metaphilosophy and how different it would have loo...

This presumes all sorts of things, Mentos, not the least of which is that happiness is the point of philosophy. Also, this question is not so much abo...

All it took was one self-proclaimed Nietzsche expert to remind me why I lost interest in this place. Call Judaism a hateful religion because some dead...

You are reversing the order of things. You think about things - perhaps dispassionately. What you think about is as much a feature of what happens in ...

Is this an exercise in misreading? I said that focus on Jews is likely antisemitic and that Israel is an example of that. Focus on Ukraine is a differ...

You've asked a dumb question multiple times in an effort to change the conversation about antisemitism into a conversation about yourself. I've now re...

I'm not sure what the "this" is. One need not look too hard to see that support of Israel is commonly attributed to Western guilt over the holocaust a...

The danger with conversations like these is that any example I offer to show the problem will just lead to your allegations that I am trying to deflec...

Again, irrelevant to whether there is systemic antisemitism in the West and the impact it has had on people's relationship to Palestine/Israel. Merely...

I agree. Which is why I said Israel is complicated. There has to be room for legitimate criticism of bad actors regardless of their origin/circumstanc...

No, they don't. You just feel a deep need to make it about yourself so you can claim that you are somehow outside of your society/culture/etc. It is n...

Here is a random link on the topic. It is Austrialian, so you can't blame the US. https://humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/ahrc_sr_2021_4_keyter...

This is petty, mentos. Do racists in the US hate black people? Your personal feelings are entirely aside from the system.

Willful misreading isn't helpful. I said that the reason you are likely talking about Israel is because of systemic antisemitism. The reason you are t...

Neither is thinking you have any idea what my motivations are in posting. I already gave non-Israel examples of antisemitism. Here is some non-Jewish ...

Right, so the way to respond to identifying systemic antisemitism is to go on talking about yourself. Do you believe in things like systemic racism? I...

It is like plucking a leaf from a stream and claiming that it is wet because it was in the stream and not because of the water cycle. There is a syste...

Don't follow. The West only cares about Israel because it is antisemitic. If the West didn't care about Israel, nothing that happens there would cause...

I'm telling you that they might cause WW3 because of antisemitism. Not complicated, just not what you want to hear.

You say automatic defensive posture - I just point out the inexplicablity of its coverage given its relative importance. Why has anyone cared about Is...

The ways I can think of explaining "antisemitism" as euphemism are different levels of unpleasant, so perhaps a metaphor will work. It is the differen...

How this doesn't go down as hate speech is a bit beyond me. While anyone can theorize anything they like, stating "facts" like this about Jews doesn't...

Making something complicated seem simple is often disingenuous, but I happen to agree that your description frames the issue. "I had no other choice b...

"Antisemitism" is a euphemism. What it is a euphemism for is a bit hard to get your arms around because different contexts present the issue different...

I haven't read the other thread from which your OP comes, so forgive me if any territory was already covered. "Male" and "female" are simply words peo...

For the sake of amusement: The fact of harm requires far more proof (certainty) than the quantum of damages stemming from the harm. Although this case...

This is why I often like your posts, but I have the need to throw way more words at it. Putting aside the debate on debate and epistemology for a mome...

One of my lectures is entitled "Effing the ineffable: A Conversation about God." And yes, the double entendre is intentional.

This will seem unrelated, but so it goes. I was driving a little while ago and thinking on the way in which Buddhism imagines suffering to be the core...

I started this response weeks ago but never finished. For some reason I’m reminded of the veil of ignorance. It is by happenstance that we find oursel...

I suspect we will have this conversation from two very different perspectives, but here are some initial reactions to the general area of equity value...

Ironically this is an inquiry into what isn't. I'm happy to engage with you on "what is," but not so much a game of hide the ball. If there is a metap...

I haven't forgotten about this thread, but then I haven't much to add. I was sitting and moving closer to the stillness when this came along...."Oh Ye...

Non-sarcastically, I appreciate the detour down Hindu history in case my post was mistaken as an appeal to antiquity, tradition, or enlightened interp...

I don't see how this avoids agency. Absolutely, the I that is me has privileged access to the stuff that is me whereas my I lacks such access to the s...

Yes. I cannot understand what it is to not be I, but assuming that I could, is conversation/action/etc. imaginable? I am totally OK with the whole non...

The point there was that there are usage conventions that can be gestured to even if not well defined. It would be like someone saying that a game of ...

While I get the sentiment of this comment, I imagine you know how off base it is. You can discuss any of those things as long as you don't attack the ...

We can reduce any composite to some component and then describe/define the composite by the component's relationship to other stuff. Sure, it is fun a...

As you well know, I will beat a long since dead horse. You let me know the point if you still want to discuss it and I will do my best to not miss it....

You can list lots of things and then ask what qualifies, but the easy answer is that science is not a religion because that isn’t how we use the word ...

The mocking was towards those that think modern religious folk actually care about beardy head. Like 2,000 years ago they may have had a point, but I'...

For what it is worth, I recently attended a wedding of an early Christian scholar/academic that was officiated by a scholar/academic of ancient Judais...

This is probably unhelpful, but your question leads to a variety of interpretations. Animals ate other animals. One day, many moons later, plants came...